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Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the Present

从中世纪至今的请愿书和请愿书

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R008868/1
负责人：
Henry James Miller
金额：
$ 4.51万
依托单位：
Durham University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR008868%2F1
关键词：
Petitions Petitioning Medieval Period Present

项目摘要

Bringing together experts from eight countries and six disciplines, this research network will examine petitions from the medieval period to the present to study practices in comparison and in connection to each other. Petitions and petitioning have long been among the most important and popular forms of interaction between people and authority. These mechanisms reveal the processes underlying participation and representation across and within political cultures. As universal and ubiquitous practices, petitions have taken myriad forms and performed diverse functions, but they have typically been studied in specific chronological and geographic settings. Addressing the current context, in which e-petitions have emerged in response to falling political participation in mature democracies, provides a further pressing intellectual rationale for examining this theme now, as does the growth of digitisation projects that will transform access to petitions as sources. As a subject, petitions cut across boundaries defined by time, space and polity, which is why this network adopts a comparative approach. To ensure a focus on a comparable group of polities, the network examines the development of petitioning within Europe and North America from the thirteenth century to the present day. Such a perspective will allow us to identify for the first time what was exceptional and generic about petitions in different national and temporal contexts, as well as how they were translated and adapted across these boundaries. The expertise of researchers from History, Law, Literature, Communication Studies, Political Science, and Sociology will enable the network to critically examine the manifold functions of petitions and petitioning as practices across different contexts and from contrasting methodological perspectives. The network makes particular provision for early-career scholars and doctoral researchers, in order to build capacity and cross-fertilisation across academic disciplines and specialisms.The network's three workshops will result in a new comparative history of petitioning, collaboratively authored by members of the network. Confirmed participants include researchers who have recently led major projects from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. As such, the network will unlock further benefits from projects commissioned by a variety of funding bodies. Bringing together international researchers and projects in interdisciplinary dialogue will further the network's ambition to develop new collaborations. A key priority is catalysing new projects that will examine petitions and petitioning within even more ambitious comparative frameworks, particularly through examining these practices in global perspective. The project has further significance in placing in broader comparative and historical perspective the rise of e-petitioning as the latest form of a practice that has been continually reinvented. To this end, the network engages public policy professionals who administer contemporary e-petitions systems and NGOs who organise e-petition campaigns. Findings will be disseminated to a wider public through working with Parliament's Education Service and digital platforms. The three network events will answer (1) what is a petition?: how we should define petitions as distinct from other political, legal, and social engagements; (2) how has petitioning developed?: how have petitioning traditions been transformed, translated, and transmuted across time and space; and (3) why and when do petitions matter?: how petitions have shaped social and political change. A coherent multi-authored volume providing a new comparative history of petitioning is the primary output of the research network. Beyond this, the project will consolidate and direct a new generation of petitioning studies that examine distinct traditions in a wider comparative perspective and facilitate new thinking about this resurgent political practice.

这个研究网络汇集了来自八个国家和六个学科的专家，将审查从中世纪到现在的请愿书，以比较和相互联系地研究各种做法。长期以来，请愿和上访一直是人民与当局之间最重要和最受欢迎的互动形式。这些机制揭示了政治文化之间和内部的参与和代表性的基本过程。作为普遍和无处不在的做法，请愿书采取了无数的形式，并履行了不同的功能，但它们通常是在特定的时间和地理环境中进行研究。解决目前的情况下，电子请愿书已经出现在成熟的民主国家的政治参与下降的反应，提供了一个进一步的紧迫的智力理由，现在研究这一主题，因为数字化项目的增长，将改变访问请愿书的来源。作为一个主题，请愿书跨越了时间、空间和政体的界限，这就是为什么这个网络采取比较的方法。为了确保重点放在一组可比较的政治，该网络审查了从十三世纪到今天欧洲和北美请愿的发展。这样的视角将使我们能够第一次确定在不同的国家和时间背景下，请愿书的特殊性和一般性，以及它们是如何跨越这些边界进行翻译和改编的。来自历史，法律，文学，传播学，政治学和社会学的研究人员的专业知识将使该网络能够批判性地研究请愿和请愿作为不同背景下的实践的多种功能，并从对比的方法论角度。该网络特别为早期职业学者和博士研究人员提供服务，以建立跨学科和专业的能力和交叉交流。该网络的三个研讨会将产生一个新的请愿史比较，由网络成员合作撰写。已确认的参与者包括最近领导英国，美国，欧洲和澳大利亚重大项目的研究人员。因此，该网络将从各种资助机构委托的项目中获得更多好处。将国际研究人员和项目聚集在一起进行跨学科对话将进一步推动该网络发展新合作的雄心。一个关键的优先事项是促进新的项目，这些项目将在更雄心勃勃的比较框架内审查请愿和请愿，特别是通过从全球角度审查这些做法。该项目具有进一步的意义，在更广泛的比较和历史的角度来看，电子请愿的兴起，作为一种不断改造的最新形式的做法。为此，该网络与管理当代电子请愿系统的公共政策专业人员和组织电子请愿运动的非政府组织合作。调查结果将通过与议会教育服务和数字平台合作向更广泛的公众传播。这三个网络事件将回答（1）什么是请愿？：我们应该如何界定请愿，以区别于其他政治，法律的，和社会的参与;（2）如何发展请愿？：请愿传统是如何跨越时间和空间被转变、翻译和转化的;（3）请愿为什么重要，何时重要？请愿是如何影响社会和政治变革的一个连贯的多作者卷提供了一个新的比较请愿的历史是研究网络的主要成果。除此之外，该项目还将巩固和指导新一代的请愿研究，以更广泛的比较视角审视不同的传统，并促进对这种复兴的政治实践的新思考。